Fremont Police Say Soaring Gold Prices Make South Asians A Target
With gold selling for more than $1,600 an ounce, a South Asian tradition of wearing gold jewelry has made Asian Indians a target for thieves, Fremont police said Friday.
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With gold selling for more than $1,600 an ounce, a South Asian tradition of wearing gold jewelry has made Asian Indians a target for thieves, Fremont police said Friday.
Top executives from a bankrupt Fremont-based solar energy company have declined to testify before a congressional hearing investigating their half-billion dollar government loan.
Two top executives at a bankrupt Bay Area solar energy company say they will invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to answer questions when they appear at a House hearing on Friday.
The Department of Energy is not the only government agency that invested heavily in Solyndra, the Fremont-based solar manufacturing company that recently filed for bankruptcy.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is calling for an independent investigator to look into a $528 million loan approved by the Energy Department for a now-bankrupt solar energy company.
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann accused the Obama administration Friday of abusing its power by steering a $535 million government loan to a now-bankrupt solar energy manufacturer.
Federal analysts looking at a proposed loan to a Bay Area solar energy company in 2009 warned then of possible problems, as well as pressure from the White House to speed up a decision, according to a memorandum released by a Congressional committee.
The Obama administration's eagerness to deliver economic stimulus may have influenced a federal review of a loan to a now bankrupt solar panel manufacturer, a move that may have left taxpayers on the hook for a $528 million debt, House Republicans said Wednesday.
Smaller Bay Area businesses have felt the ripple effect the former solar giant set off when it closed down its operation in the last week.
A congressional memorandum indicates that even as the executives of a solar energy company assured members of Congress that their finances were improving, a different story was being prepared behind the scenes.
Former University of California at Berkeley golfer Diane Kwan, 21, was found dead in a Fremont parking lot late Monday night, and police said they are investigating the "suspicious" death.
FBI agents were executing search warrants at the headquarters of Fremont solar firm Solyndra that received a $535 million loan from the federal government.
A leading Bay Area manufacturer of solar power systems has abruptly shut down operations as it seeks to file for bankruptcy.
Multiple police agencies have made several arrests after raiding at least four houses in Newark Thursday morning.
The suit claims a former general manager verbally harassed Afghan salesmen and called them terrorists.
The idea of renaming a portion of Fremont that is home to many Afghani-Americans as 'Little Kabul' is being met with opposition by several residents and business owners.
If the settlement is approved, it will resolve a lawsuit that was filed last year alleging that NUMMI and Toyota Motor Corp. violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
An arson investigation is under way into a fire at Walters Junior High in Fremont on Wednesday night, fire officials said.
A woman who was struck by a car and killed while crossing a street in Fremont on Thursday has been identified by the Alameda County coroner's bureau as 53-year-old Maria Villalpando.
A man was killed in a motorcycle crash on an Interstate Highway 680 on-ramp in Fremont Wednesday morning.
Two men taken into custody Wednesday night after leading law enforcement officials on a lengthy car chase through the East Bay are not the murder suspects police are seeking, East Palo Alto police said.
Members of the Bay Area's high-tech crimes task force will be able to keep their badges for at least another year.
Later this week, several suspects accused of pulling the largest high-tech heist ever in the Bay Area will be in court in Alameda County.
